Is “only eat oysters in months” a myth?
Yes it is. Folklore says that oysters should be eaten only in months with “r’s” in them-September, October, etc. Oysters can be eaten 12 months a year. The notion that oysters should not be eaten in “r”-less months-that is, months that occur during warm weather-may have started in the days when oysters where shipped without adequate refrigeration and could spoil. But today all that has changed and we can enjoy oysters twelve months a year. (And at the Oyster Company many of our oysters come from local waters so there is no shipping required!
